HACKED STRATFOR EMAILS: DEA Told To Back Off From The Brother Of Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Newly released internal emails from the U.S. private security
firm Stratfor state that in 2007 the Bush Administration and CIA
ordered the Drug Enforcement Agency to back off a major drug
trafficking investigation of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half
brother.

Ahmed Wali Karzai was an influential power broker in
Afghanistan before he
was assassinated in July 2011.

The brother of President Karzai of Afghanistan is under
investigation by DEA as a major narcotics trafficker.
For political reasons, DEA has
beentold to backoff [sic] by the White
House and CIA.DEA is seeing a direct
nexus between terrorism and narcotics in Afghanistan with
narcotics sales being used to fund jihadist
operations.

After a Stratfor analyst asks "how close is karzai to this
brother?" Burton replies:

Was described to me as close. Karzai will end up being another
Noreiga.
Off the record --DEA will proceed and take 'em (both?) down anyway, once
this White House disappears.
As I've said before, every country we have touched, turns to
shit.

WikiLeaks has
published 2,694 out
of what it says is a cache of 5 million internal Stratfor emails
(dated between July 2004 and December 2011) obtained by the
hacker collective Anonymous around Christmas.

UPDATE: As redditor WhoShotJR
notes, current and former American officials
told the New York Times in 2009
that Ahmed Karzai received regular payments from the
CIA since 2001.